Air America suspends Randi Rhodes

Air America has suspended Randi Rhodes for calling Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro “fucking whores” during an Air America event in San Francisco.  HuffPo has the details. I have no problems with the decision. Rhodes crossed a line I wouldn’t cross and no one can suspend me from this blog. I don’t see how Air America had any other choice. She had to go.

MORE: No Quarter delivers again:

UPDATE: Let’s contact Air America Radio and tell their top brass that we want Taylor Marsh to replace Randy Rhodes. Taylor tells it like it is, but she has class and dignity. She also has a wicked sense of humor and the lively style needed for AM radio. Taylor would be perfect! Let them know!

Yeah, that Taylor Marsh.

FINALLY: I’m a huge hit at MyHRC. This is the post I’m referring to. As Betty Cracker wrote in a previous post, “I’m not sure there’s a shower hot enough…”

Posted by Kevin K. on 04/03/08 at 01:38 PM • Permalink

Just think—she’d have an actual RADIO job instead of merely passing herself off as a radio personality!

I hope it happens, actually.

I can imagine it being an amusing train wreck, ala Being Bobby Brown. You wouldn’t even need to change the dialogue:

LARRY: “Do you think I can impregnate you tonight?”

TAYLOR:"Larry, you’ve been impregnatin’ me over the last week.”

”...the lively style needed for AM radio”?  What the...??  Notice he doesn’t say she’s intelligent or knows what she’s talking about, though? 

But I’m sure the tsunami of support has already begun, so who are we to harsh their groove?

The funny thing is that I’ve seen Air America make so many horrible programming decisions over the years, Taylor getting a drive time slot wouldn’t be all that surprising.

I’ve actually listened to Taylor’s “radio shows” and they’re totally amateur.  Her voice is awful and her delivery is disastrous.  They’re painful to listen to regardless of the subject matter. Even the produced intro to her show is sub-community-college-radio.  How do these idiots even believe she’d stand a chance?

Rhea Perlman on HGH…